1,205 Test Positive as Covid-19 Deaths Rise to 4,117

The Ministry of Health has announced 1,205 new Covid-19 cases from 8,158 samples tested in the last 24 hours. This has raised the national tally to 211,028.

The cumulative number of samples tested so far stands at 2,184,276. The country’s positivity rate is at 14.8 per cent.

In a statement issued on Saturday, 7th August, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe announced that from the new cases, 1,175 are Kenyans while 30 are foreigners with 622 being males while 583 are females.The youngest is a six-month-old infant while the oldest is 100.

Kagwe said 1,242 patients have recovered from the disease, 1,069 from the Home-Based Care Program, while 173 have been discharged from various hospitals. The total number of recoveries now stands at 197,029.

The national death toll rose to 4,117 after 29 more patients succumbed to the virus.

Currently, there are 1,650 patients admitted in various health facilities across the country while another 7,771 are on Home-Based Isolation and Care.

Some 109 patients are in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 46 are on ventilatory support, 56 on supplemental oxygen and seven patients on observation.

Another 568 patients are separately on supplementary oxygen with 533 of them being admitted in the general wards and 35 patients are in the High Dependency Unit (HDU).

Vaccination: A total of 1,793,520 persons have been vaccinated against the Covid-19 disease countrywide. Of these, total first doses are 1,097,830 while second doses are 695,690.

The uptake of the second dose by priority groups is as follows: Aged 58 years and above 214,059, others 204,391, health workers 119,820, teachers 101,577 while security officers are at 55,843.